Don Ritchie was a man who lived across from a popular suicide spot in Sydney, Australia, where he saved at least 160 lives by watching out his window and inviting people near the edge of the cliff to come in and join him for tea. Source
Kids might like a piggy bank, but these banks don't pay interest or send out monthly statements. If you move your child's money to a bank account, they learn valuable lessons about money management. Experts suggest six years old as the proper age to start an account.
You know from Galileo’s experiment that falling objects will fall at the same speed, no matter their weight. The experiment falls apart when you use feathers, however, because they waft down rather than fall, because of air resistance. But what if you took the air out of the equation?
The world’s largest vacuum chamber is in Cleveland, Ohio. Physicist Brian Cox visited to show us what a falling feather looks like in an environment without any air, so therefore no air resistance. The clip is from the BBC Two show Human Universe. -via Metafilter
Facebook, the social network company, known for tracking users and being careless with its privacy policy, announced that its service can now be accessed directly within the Tor network through its own .onion address.
Ask any horror fan worth their weight in blood and they’ll say The Cabin in the Woods is one of the best horror films in the past few years. That’s mostly because it’s not only a horror movie. It’s a satire, a comedy, a mystery and a sci-fi action film all rolled into one. Written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, The Cabin in the Woods is a film that lives and dies on not only the audience’s knowledge of horror films, but each character’s knowledge as well.
A new video has been posted online that breaks that statement down. It attempts, and admittedly comes close, to calling out every single reference in The Cabin in the Woods. Check out The Cabin in the Woods references video below.
Thanks to GoodBadFlicks for the great Cabin in the Woods references video. Did you pick up on all of these?
Cancel whatever plans you had for the rest of today.
The Internet Archive, a non-profit best known for backing up web pages, has added a collection of 900 video games from the 1970s to 1990s that can be played in your web browser — no coins required.
Called the Internet Arcade, the collection includes familiar games such as Astro Invader and Pac Man, as well as more obscure titles from that era. Most include detailed background histories and links to play in the browser
Some of the games we tested were a bit clunky to play, but, remember, it's free and hopefully it gets better in time. Read more...
Step right up, fanboys and girls: the relentless data designers at Pop Chart Lab have updated their Insanely Great History of Apple print, and it is a doozy featuring over 500 items from the Cupertino fruit slinger.
When you hear someone else speak, specific neurons in your brain fire. Brian Pasley and a bunch of his colleagues discovered this at the University of California, Berkeley. And not only that, but those neurons all appeared to be tuned to specific...
Kevin Jones of Louisville, Kentucky is the father of Janiya, a 10-year old girl. Let me repeat that: she's 10. Even though she's 5'9" tall, her age is barely in the double digits.
Nonetheless, Janiya was dressing as a teenager and trying to convince much older boys and men online that she was anything from 14 to 18 years old.
Jones solved that problem. He made Janiya literally dress her age. She had to wear to school a shirt that says her true age on the front and her grade on the back. Janiya carried a Sofia the First backpack to school and wore ribbons in her hair. Continue reading to view more photos.
-via 22 Words, which provided the blurred photos in this post
Disney has long claimed that the hit movie Frozen is a retelling of the classic folk tale The Snow Queen.
Do you believe the official story?
Mary Katharine Ham doesn't. In a systematic argument, she explains how it is actually a remake of Stanely Kubrick's 1980 horror film The Shining.
It all makes sense. Olaf is Wendy Torrance. Anna is Danny Torrance. Elsa is Jack Torrance. They're cut off from the rest of the world in the Overlook Hotel, which is trapped in an eternal winter.
Power is growing within Danny. A dark, unearthly power. Elsa can't control it. And it will destroy them all.
i only shared this cause i thought tim robbins had dressed up like a woman
This weekend's episode of Saturday Night Live was hosted by Chris Rock, a comedian who is never one to shy away from controversy or uncomfortable discussions about race.
The SNL sketch "Women in the Workplace" was no different. In it, Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong are the hosts of an awkward '90s diversity-training video, while Rock plays a "diverse person."
"Have you ever accidentally offended a diverse person so much that you walked into a closet and stayed there the rest of the day, even though every time someone got their coat, they saw you in there?" McKinnon's character says. Read more...
Fans of Stephen King will like this Rolling Stone interview with him from his office just outside Bangor, Maine, which "sits on a particularly dreary dead-end road... just down the street from a gun-and-ammo store, a snowplow dealership and, appropriately enough, an old cemetery." Perfect.
Visit Rolling Stone to read the interview, the scope of which spans King's entire career.
A powerful early season winter storm dumped nearly two feet of snow in the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina on Saturday, a day after it flooded Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive by whipping up 22-foot waves on Lake Michigan. And this storm is just getting started
By Sunday, an intense area of low pressure will be located off the coast of New England, causing heavy rain, snow and airport-snarling winds of 50 miles per hour or more from Long Island to Maine
The storm has been termed a “Manitoba Mauler” by one National Weather Service office, due to its origins in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The record early season snows in the Southeast — this was the earliest measurable snow on record in Columbia, South Carolina — were the result of an unusually intense area of cold air and atmospheric spin in the upper atmosphere, which is known to meteorologists as an upper level low Read more...
Today’s B2B sales and marketing folks struggle with the overwhelming number of channels for finding and reaching new leads. The customer “funnel” continues to expand as buyers do more of their own research before raising their hand to connect with a sales rep. But imagine if you could make the funnel taller by identifying leads when they’re just browsing your site… Read More
An art installation at the Tower of London, designed to pay homage to British soldiers killed during World War I, has become so popular that officials are asking potential visitors to stay home.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the Great War, "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" features a sea of ceramic red poppies surrounding the Tower of London — 888,246 in all — with each representing the memory of a soldier killed between 1914 and 1918. But in recent days, the memorial site has become a victim of its own success
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Facebook, the social network company, known for tracking users and being careless with its privacy policy, announced that its service can now be accessed directly within the Tor network through its own .onion address.
When you hear someone else speak, specific neurons in your brain fire. Brian Pasley and a bunch of his colleagues discovered this at the University of California, Berkeley. And not only that, but those neurons all appeared to be tuned to specific...
(Photos: Kevin Jones)
Today’s B2B sales and marketing folks struggle with the overwhelming number of channels for finding and reaching new leads. The customer “funnel” continues to expand as buyers do more of their own research before raising their hand to connect with a sales rep. But imagine if you could make the funnel taller by identifying leads when they’re just browsing your site… Read More
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